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Official BOM Victoria State Daily Observations |
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Victoria
Notes on the Weather
Issued at 4:30 pm EDT on Tuesday 7 October 2025.
Recent Events
On Monday, a mid level cloud band and patchy rainfall gradually cleared to the
north and east during the morning. Isolated showers persisted in the south in
the wake of this system, with some sunnier breaks developing during the
afternoon. There were no significant rainfall totals in the 24 hours to 9am
Tuesday, with totals of less than 1mm in southern Victoria.
Overnight minimum temperatures were generally up to 1 to 5 degrees below the
October average, and mostly ranged between 1 and 8 degrees. The lowest
temperature recorded was -4 degrees at Mt Hotham Airport. The highest minimum
was 10 degrees at Cape Nelson, Melbourne (Olympic Park), Rhyll and Wilsons Prom.
Morning fog and frost cleared to a mostly sunny day across Victoria, except in
the southwest where it remained cloudy. There may have been some light showers
in the southwest, but there was no significant rainfall recorded in Bureau of
Meteorology gauges.
Maximum temperatures were generally up to 4 degrees below the monthly average.
Maxima mostly ranged between 14 and 19 degrees. The highest temperature
recorded to 4pm was 23 degrees at Mildura and Walpeup. The lowest recorded
maximum was 5 degrees at Falls Creek and Mt Hotham.
In Melbourne the temperature ranged from a low of 9.7 degrees at 5:48am to a
high of 19.1 degrees at 3:37pm. There was no rain recorded in the city gauge in
the 31 hours to 4pm.
Explanatory Notes
A weak pressure gradient lies over Victoria in broad westerly flow. A series of
cold fronts embedded in this flow crosses the state, with a front moving over
southern Victoria each day from Wednesday through to Friday. A weak ridge
extends over western Victoria during Saturday.
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